CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY

Author: SANTIAGO GARCIA JOSE ANTONIO.
Year: 2003.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS POLITICAS Y SOCIOLOGҍA.

Summary: This thesis sitÃÂ seventh to the interseciÃÂ ³ n two compos study, sociologÃÂa of religiÃÂ charges and teorÃÂa social nacionalismo.Pretende to account for the relaciÃÂ charges that keeps nationalism with the process secularizaciÃÂ charges in the light of discussions teÃÂ ³ rich place in both fields study. The thesis estÃÂ ¡structured in three parts nÃÂtidamente diferenciadas.La first aims to provide a rereading crÃÂtica process secularizaciÃÂ charges in the light of tradiciÃÂ ³ n sociolÃÂ ³ gica.Para It builds on the previous sociologÃÂa of religiÃÂ ³ nde the clÃÂ ¡sicos, Durkheim and Weber assessing their propuestas.Tras It reconstructs I think is one of the central frames that stimulate the debate on secularizaciÃÂ charges that iniciÃÂ ¡ndose in interpretaciÃÂ ³ n dela secualizaciÃÂ charges as a process diferenciaciÃÂ ³ n drift in the debate about religions civiles.Tras this tour provides a interpretaciÃÂ ³ n process secularizaciÃÂ ³ n. The second part aims to give an account of the relaciÃÂ ³ n foster nationalism with the process secularizaciÃÂ charges in the light of the provisions in the first parte.Se evalÃÂ seventh an crÃÂticamente different versions of the theory of nationalism as religiÃÂ charges of modernity and replantea the relaciÃÂ charges between secularizaciÃÂ charges and nationalism realizing the sacralizaciÃÂ charges of vÃÂnculo national community and the spatio-temporal dimensions that make it possible "to imagine" naciÃÂ ³ n making it a powerful device sense. The third part of the thesis deals with the subject of study from materials empÃÂrico of Basque nationalism and quebequense.A propÃÂ ³ sito are analyzed several aspects that are determined by the results achieved in the first two parts of the thesis: sacralizaciÃÂ ³ n the border traditional religious nationalism, the role they have played the "national churches" in the development of naciÃÂ ³ n, secularizaciÃÂ charges of nationalism that tine place in the aÃÂ ± os sixties and seventies and that is acompaÃÂ ± ada of a transfer sacredness of the relationship between the national community, violence nacionalistta and sacred, conformaciÃÂ charges of imaginariors of continudad, relations between territoriality, sacredness and soberanÃÂa, the role of nationalism in the integraciÃÂ ³ n simbÃÂ ³ lica of societies, etc.Todo this from a comparative perspective that helps us to better understand the development and current state of both nationalism.

Author: HUICI URMENETA VICENTE.
Year: 2004.
University: PAÍS VASCO.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y DE LA COMUNICACIÓN.

Summary: The thesis examines, from a methodological perspective based on the budget prepared by Michel Foucault, the formalization of the concepts of space and time in the work of sociologists Emilie Durkheim, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Halbwachs and Georges Gurvitch, emphasizing their mutual interactions, and as the influences of other thinkers peers as Octave Hamelin and Henri Bergson.

Author: HANNINEN LIISA IRENE.
Year: 2004.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMATICA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.

Summary: Keywords: destination tuñstico, image tuñstica, media image, image attributes, potential traveler, sender and recipient country Finland has been a tourist destination almost nonexistent for most Spaniards until the 80's, which in turn represent launched issuer mass tourism from Spain. However, it was during the late nineties and early this decade when Spain begins to occupy a position of importance for tourism receiver Finnish: the number of passengers Spaniards who visited Finland doubled between the years 1997 and 2002. In 2003, more than 70,000 Spaniards visited Finland and the data of 2004 currently available, in March 2005, suggested a slight increase over the previous year. In the year 2002, the Tourist Office of Finland commissioned the University of Joensuu extensive research on the tourist image of the country in its seven major markets: Germany, Sweden, Russia, Britain, Holland, Italy and France, led by Raija Komppula and Saila Saraniemi. This thesis is born with the intention to extend the same consideration to Spain, one of the secondary markets of Finland with greater growth potential, in order to validate the results Spaniards with the Europeans. The little knowledge about Finland discovered among travelers potential suggested delving into the matter by extending the study, so that also analyzes the country's image as a tourist destination among experts from the Spanish wholesalers and among media-related tourism. Among all groups surveyed, highlights a lack of consistent and unified image on the country. However, there is a common denominator for all three public perceptions, which is a predominantly winter vision about Finland, despite the fact that 60% of Spaniards visiting Finland in the summer. For Spaniards studied, Finland does especially cold, snow and ice, features not necessarily be interpreted as negative. Discovering a perceived stereotypical image espe.cialmenteentre travelers potential and journalists, as perceptions northern different, and Papa Noel Christmas, Lapland and nature fascinating. The media frequently mention lakes, absent the perceptions of travelers. Finland lacks branding country in the Spanish market, for which reason it is suggested to increase general knowledge about Finland, in addition to position it as a unique destination, differentiated from the competition by highlighting the positive features of the image of Finland in communication . For differentiation and brand building, there is a need for further promotion of supply and the characteristics of summer country is the only country in the world that offers a landscape with 187,000 lakes.

Author: MADRID GARCÍA M. VICTORIA.
Year: 2004.
University: GRANADA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: This study stems from the desire to know more detail a tourism industry that has emerged strongly in our region in recent years. This has been framed at the overall situation of the tourism sector in the national context (at conceptualization terminology, a number of visitors, regulatory framework and policies for the promotion and tourism marketing), then going to focus the analysis on four points deemed essential for the development potential of the sector, namely, the concepts of quality, sustainability, desetacionalización and diversification of markets. Finally, it has conducted a field study of the supply and demand of tourism, which has measured through different variables knowledge, development and level of implementation of these concepts in the community Andalusian.

Author: CONTO SENDÍN ANDRÉ DO.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.

Summary: This is a research on the structure of information and communication system Portuguese. His working hypothesis focuses on the role or function that the contents are and will sector development. Applying the method Delphi makes a fairly detailed field survey.

Author: RAYÓN VALPUESTA M. ESPERANZA.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: The theme of this paper is the relationship between culture and practices of nursing care, in particular, addresses the presence and meanings of cultural models of nursing as a profession and in relation to the theoretical models that serve as conceptual. The starting point was the difficulty of applying models cited nursing care in the workplace, even though they were designed precisely to direct and transform the practice. At the suspect, moreover, that the daily practice of nursing work could enclose its own cultural models, a first relationship between the two (theoretical models of enfermería-modelos cultural) as a hypothesis: perhaps the "non-applicability" those models are due to nursing that they did not agree with the model of our own cultural context that surely were marking practice. From these ideas were emerging goals of this research: First, identify the influence of culture on the practices of care nurses belonging to the National Health System in our context, and their role in building what we suspected "model implicit nursing, "which was the true model of operational practice nurse. Second, compared to the theoretical models of nursing, contrasting cultural elements associated with them. The results reveal the cultural construction of nursing, so it would be pointless trying to implement the so-called theoretical models, which have been built outside the context and confirmed the presence of an implicit model of nursing, which describes its basic features .

Author: LORENZI FERNANDEZ ELISABETH.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: In Madrid neighborhood of Vallecas is held in mid-July, a playful war of water, Battleships, which claimed independence Vallekas (K) and an exit from sea to the neighborhood. This festival was born in 1981 and caló in the local imagination in a context of effervescence contracultural, when the newborn country was taking its first steps towards a new political regime in the hands of different social groups who were interested in bringing the local population around events and icons neighborhood as they felt neighborhood organizations as an important platform for the further democratization of society. During these past 25 years Battleboats has continued to hold. The author notes the evolution of this feast at the same time the political reticulation of the neighborhood in order to identify trends in their own party's role in promoting the identity of the neighborhood. The ultimate goal is to establish the role that the ritual is in the arena of power, relating to the processes of articulation occurring around its conclusion, beyond the time of their execution.

Author: SÁNCHEZ MENCHERO MAURICIO.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA INFORMACIÓN.

Summary: The thesis deals with the issue of public entertainment in Madrid during the nineteenth century. Through a long-term approach, the development of the circus is studied through its historical contextualization into three parts: the first covers the years of the reign of Ferdinand VII, then focuses on the period isabelino to conclude with the death of Alfonso XII, and the consolidation of the Restoration. The evolution of the circus and other shows in Madrid serves as a common thread to discuss the company Madrid in their ways of designing and conducting forms of entertainment. Thus, one can observe an evolutionary process that goes from the exhibits at fairs or festivals numbers typical of agrarian societies and the old regime, to achieve modern forms especially from the circus: a whole system of programs, advertising - posters and press and architectural spaces ready to receive urban public increasingly numerous. The evolution of entertainment is reflected in the regulations which regulate the permits, monitor security measures, determine the tax payments. Over the thesis, the concept of intermediary culture serves to understand the circus as a modern entertainment recovers ancient forms of entertainment, but also as a host of performers and animals that present new exercises or appliances recent invention as firearms or cycles. Also, the circus becomes a space power transfers between various cultural performances such as bulls, zarzuela or sports.

Author: SANTORO DOMINGO PABLO.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: F.CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: F. CC. POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: This paper deals with the relationships that have been established over the twentieth century between modernogénero literary science fiction (named as such in 1929) and the organization of contemporary science system has been called Big Sciene or Macrociencia. In particular, the aim is to highlight the role played by science fiction literature in the construction of images significant public system macrocientífico, images that are used by the different actors and social groups to represent both the science and its current and potential future developments guide on the basis of these images their action. Avoid idealism in our approach involves both look like science literature as a specific social and historical, and carefully study the sociological dynamics of contact between science and literary activity. Thus, textual analysis of the visions of science built into this literary genre is complemented by the inquiry in the literary world which is the social where science fiction is produced and consumed, and where they fall in relation writers, critics, editors , hearings, etc.. The thesis concludes with a proposal of four dynamic contact between science fiction and science: Semantización public scientific activity: Criticism and political mobilization; recruitment of scientists and production of vocations; Feedback epistémico diffuse.

Author: FONSECA DIAS GASPAR SOFIA.
Year: 2005.
University: COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID.
Place of defense: CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS POLÍTICAS Y SOCIOLOGÍA.

Summary: The overall objective that we intend to cover this research is to demonstrate that the novel is a particular kind of knowledge about the social world. This assumption leads us also to defend the social knowledge novelístico represents a kind of knowledge located between those provided by the sociology as a science and common sense, with important points of affinity and alienation on both in regard to knowledge builds on the world. This intermediate status of social knowledge that attach to the novel demands also be materialized in the analysis of world novelístico staff and author of a concrete analysis that could provide empirical illustration of the arguments that we seek to develop in this work. The choice of both the work of the cousin of Basil realistic Portuguese writer Jose Maria Eça de Queirós (1845-1900), and the author's own world serve the purposes that we have set for this investigation. The proximity of aesthetics queirosiana and overall realism regarding the nineteenth century social science, legitimizes defend realismo-naturalismo as a kind of model ideal-típico literary derived, in part, from the sociology. The ideas of Proudhon and Taine within the domain filosófico-social, as well as those of Falubert and Balzac, in a literary context, explicitly arise again and again in the writings and journalistic novelísticos of Portuguese writer. The nature of his work is thus consciously influenced by the sociology as realistic French literature of the nineteenth century. What gives, in terms epistemological, a hybrid nature to social knowledge that the novelist seeks to convey. That being the case, which seeks here by analyzing The cousin basil is to assign a status of social knowledge intermediate this novel face the sociology of scientific knowledge and knowledge of ordinary common sense.

Author: GONZÁLEZ ARÉVALO CARLOS.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE PEDAGOGÍA - INEFC (CENTRE DE BARCELONA).

Summary: The research has as main purpose, assist in the search for the key indicators needed to assess the quality of the area of physical education at the stage preinteractiva. From the literature review conducted in the state of affairs on three fundamental pillars: quality education and physical education, provides the theoretical framework developed. It has established five levels of quality from a top-level policy up to fifth operational level through whom it is possible to improve the quality of the area. The indicators have been selected grouped into three dimensions: entry (context), process (educational) and output (result). Through interviews demoscopic to department heads of the 227 centers that are part of the study of the universe (According to the database referred to the course 2002-2003) and used as a tool for observing a questionnaire consisting of 59 questions, the information is collected from each indicator. The collection of data and its introduction to the SPSS statistical program allows analysis of the data. So far a first approximation to resutlados. This first part of the study opens the door to genetic selection key indicators for assessing the quality of the area of physical education centers differentiated according to type, according to the district in which they are located. By limiting to 20 questions and recodificándolas again giving a numerical score to each of the answers, we quantify the quality of the area of physical education. The investigation leading to the design of an instrument of self-assessment of the area of physical education (AQUAEF) so that each school can identify the strengths worth maintaining, as well as weaknesses that can be improved. A tool such features facilitates the analysis by the same faculty of the area, driven by the continuous improvement.

Author: GARCÍA PILÁN PEDRO.
Year: 2006.
University: VALENCIA.
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE CIÈNCIES SOCIALS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE CIÈNCIES SOCIALS.

Summary: The dissertation proceeded to consider the case of Easter Marinera Valencia as an example where poderinvestigar processes and flexible construction of the tradition, bringing it in relation to the contexts Process of globalization, especially in its cultural, and the ownership of culture. The thesis reviews the history of the Easter Marinera to focus on its partnership network, the speeches of the social partners on tradition, the ritual sequence and strategies opening to the outside (turistización and ownership). It analyzes the ownership and especially "museolization" of the party, bringing in relation to the flow of cultural globalization. The methodology combines the use of documentary collection, participant observation and conducting interviews. Ultimately, the argument linking the recomposition of tradition with modern and globalized processes of secularization.